Name: Syntrophomonas zehnderi Sousa et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: zehn’der.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. zehnderi, of Zehnder, named after Alexander J. B. Zehnder, who contributed to our present knowledge of the microbiology of microbial processes in methanogenic bioreactors

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 17840; JCM 13948; OL-4

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ898277 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sousa DZ, Smidt H, Alves MM, Stams AJ. Syntrophomonas zehnderi sp. nov., an anaerobe that degrades long-chain fatty acids in co-culture with Methanobacterium formicicum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:609-615.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1173-1174.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.15379 (N = 1).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Syntrophomonas McInerney et al. 1982

Assigned by: Sousa DZ, Smidt H, Alves MM, Stams AJ. Syntrophomonas zehnderi sp. nov., an anaerobe that degrades long-chain fatty acids in co-culture with Methanobacterium formicicum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:609-615.

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Record number: 786037